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Ask not?

Don't ask!

I know, I know. Kennedy was allowed to deliver a weird, pseudo-archaic version of the English language in order to achieve a sentence with ask at the start of each half in a way that delivered emphasis and the sense of resolution to the second of the two.

Mind not, I should, mind you.


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Ask not if your country is starving, ask how much more you can give to your bankers
By: orda
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Fri, 06 May 11 6:29 PM
Msg. 05306 of 54959

One phone call to a bona-fide hedger like Cargill or Archer Daniels Midland and one secret swap of assets, and a bank's stake in the futures market is indistinguishable from that of an international wheat buyer. What if the government outlawed all long-only derivative products, I asked? Once again, laughter. Problem solved with another phone call, this time to a trading office in London or Hong Kong; the new food derivative markets have reached supranational proportions, beyond the reach of sovereign law.

The same thing would happen with Wave's mythical shorters. A couple of phone calls and, voila!, everything's "fixed."

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman_sachs_created_the_food_crisis?page=0,1


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